"Dick" <rfraning@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:28cb09cd-6bd3-464e-b362-41240f59da61@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> A TRILOGY ON METAPHYSICS AND THE HUMAN SOUL
> (Dedicated to the Honor and the Glory of God)
> --------------------------------------------
> A SHORT TREATISE ON THE REALITY OF GOD
> God is the ultimate reality.
Interesting. No cost.?
>He has spun the universes into existence
> and has created all other beings.
I'd love to know who else is on the ground floor of this baby, haven't
heard
yet. As far as I can tell,
>As humans, we too had our beginning
> from God. Like Plato and Socrates, I believe that we pre-existed in a
> spiritual realm prior to being born into this world.
No one else would have $ to do it.
>Unfortunately
> the
> church fathers, with the exceptions of Origen and Augustine, rejected
> this view as an overreaction to the heresies of gnosticism and
> neoplatonism that threatened to subvert the Gospel. How do I know of
> this pre-existence? I have very faint memories of a spiritual
> existence
> before being born into this world. My children spoke of this of this
> existence when they were small. I have heard of other 2-4 year old
> children being able to talk of their own pre-existence in the
> spiritual
> realm prior to their earthly birth, when carefully questioned about
> it.
> One couple I know of had three boys who each spoke of having been
> with
> God and the angels prior to birth without any prompting from their
> parents when they were small. Evidently as people age and develop,
> these memories are overlaid with countless earthly memories and are
> largely forgotten.
> One may ask why are we here and forced to leave that spiritual
> realm.
> I believe that the answer lies in the fall of Lucifer from Heaven
> along
> with a third of the angels. It is my own belief that human spirits
> were
> originally intended to be part of Lucifer's cadre in the spiritual
> realm.
Do you have any motivation to do it?
mk5000
" The Oriental cast an angry glance back into the house and muttered
unwillingly to Anisii, "Wha' can do f'you?" "Courier Tulipov from the
Department of Gendarmes with do***ents for His Honor." --Boris Akunin,
"Special Assignments"
|
